The prevalence of women on the editorial boards of spine, neurosurgery, and orthopedic surgery journals.
| Journal Category and Title | % ofFemale Editorial Board Members(n/N) | 2018 JIF | 5-Y JIF |
| Spine | 5.53 (30/542)a | - | - |
| The Spine Journal | 6.45 (8/124) | 3.196 | 3.720 |
| Spine | 3.57 (5/140) | 2.903 | 3.616 |
| Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine | 5.88 (1/17) | 2.998 | 3.390 |
| European Spine Journal | 8.92 (14/157) | 2.513 | 2.870 |
| Clinical Spine Surgery | 1.92 (2/104) | 1.726 | 1.730 |
| Neurosurgery | 8.58 (47/548)a , b | - | - |
| Journal of Neurosurgery | 15.00 (3/20) | 4.130 | 4.483 |
| Neurosurgery | 15.03 (23/153) | 4.605 | 4.415 |
| Neurosurgical Focus | 0.00 (0/4) | 2.891 | 3.665 |
| Neurosurgical Review | 11.76 (2/17) | 2.532 | 2.382 |
| Neurosurgery Clinics of North America | 0.00 (0/2) | 2.553 | 2.323 |
| World Neurosurgery | 10.94 (14/128) | 1.723 | 2.135 |
| Acta Neurochirurgica | 1.72 (1/58) | 1.834 | 2.097 |
| Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences | 5.45 (3/55) | 1.883 | 1.796 |
| Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica | 0.00 (0/58) | 1.651 | 1.442 |
| British Journal of Neurosurgery | 0.00 (0/13) | 1.481 | 1.313 |
| Neurochirurgie | 6.67 (1/15) | 0.948 | 0.974 |
| Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A | 0.00 (0/9) | 1.060 | 0.950 |
| Turkish Neurosurgery | 0.00 (0/16) | 0.896 | 0.901 |
| Orthopedics | 10.77 (108/1003)b | - | - |
| The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery | 15.46 (15/97) | 4.716 | 6.101 |
| CORR | 13.04 (12/92) | 4.154 | 4.478 |
| Acta Orthopaedica | 10.00 (1/10) | 3.217 | 3.575 |
| JAAOS | 8.00 (2/25) | 2.348 | 3.322 |
| Journal of Orthopaedic Research | 21.99 (31/141) | 3.043 | 3.156 |
| International Orthopaedics | 13.64 (3/22) | 2.384 | 2.523 |
| Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma | 4.35 (6/138) | 1.826 | 2.376 |
| The Orthopedic Clinics of North America | 0.00 (0/6) | 2.475 | 2.364 |
| JOSR | 10.00 (4/40) | 1.907 | 2.292 |
| AOTS | 0.00 (0/6) | 1.973 | 2.085 |
| OTSR | 7.14 (1/14) | 1.572 | 1.968 |
| Orthopedics | 4.76 (5/105) | 1.608 | 1.720 |
| Journal of Orthopaedic Science | 2.00 (1/50) | 1.257 | 1.468 |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | 0.89 (5/56) | 1.331 | 1.395 |
| Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery | 12.57 (22/175) | 0.957 | 1.099 |
| AOTT | 0.00 (0/26) | 0.896 | 0.916 |
| Total | 8.84 (185/2093) | - | - |
For each journal category, journals are arranged from highest to lowest 5-y JIF.
aJournal categories of spine and neurosurgery do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.
bJournal categories of neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.
AOTS, Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery; AOTT, Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica; CORR, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; JAAOS, Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; JIF, journal impact factor; JOSR, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research; OTSR, Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research.